About two years ago, my co-workers rearranged the keys on my keyboard while I was out. It took two weeks for me to notice. I have yet to bother to change it back.
My favorite comment I've gotten was from a software tech. She came around to install some new software and wasn't able to type with the few letters switched around. She turned to me and asked, "Is this a left handed keyboard or something?"
Ignoring any issues of stupidity regarding this proposal, there is one practical point that cannot be ignored.
The IP address space isn't big enough for all the nodes on the internet. NAT alleviates this problem by "sharing" IP addresses. Remove NAT, and you're going to have to disconnect most computers from the internet.
Like many people have said, its a really easy installation, well doccumented in the faq. The most intimidating part to a newbie would be partitioning the disk.
The recommended method is creating individual partitions for/, swap,/usr,/home,/tmp, and/var. Deciding the appropriate sizes for each of these partitions when you have no experience is probably the hardest part - but there's plenty of recommendations online. Personally, I'd recommend 80MB for/, 300MB for swap, 500MB for/tmp, 1GB for/var and split the rest between/usr and/home (/home is where most of your personal files will be stored and/usr is where most packages are installed).
All of the comands are well doccumented during the install if you type 'help'. The only other thing that could cause some confusion to somebody new is that by default all drive input sizes are by hd sectors - Not Bytes. The simple way to avoid calculating everything is just append all partition sizes with a 'M'. This lets the system know that your number is in Megs, not sectors.
Funny you should mention this being a good way of dealing with an addiction for online gambling.. When I clicked on the article I got a popup for none-other-than the aforementioned.
So you'd argue that making someone liable for things likely to be beyond their control is a way to encourage those who have the control, but no liability, to reform?
Well, yea. I'm saying that if the general population was worried that their bandwidth bill would go up because of being a victim of some malicious person - they WOULD put pressure on their distributer to reform. The whole reason companies won't reform is the the general population really doesn't care all that much.
You are right about the inbound traffic being a seperate issue from the outbound. But the fear of somebody's system being compromised and utilizing tons of upstream bandwidth (which they pay for) would theoretically motivate them to try and tighten their system up.
You know, it seems to me that if Individuals are held liable for bandwidth issues stemming from malicious users, it provides a pretty good incentive to keep their systems up to date with the latest patches.
It also would cause Individuals to generate greater pressure on Distributors to get patches out and visible to the general public. If the general public took more of an interest in internet security, there'd potentially be much fewer DDos Zombies out there.
There's nothing quite as eye-opening as a huge bill sitting on the table staring back at you.
"Once again Garry played the Sicilian, but this time he chose his favourite sharp Najdorf. Black played an unusual move in the opening, but equalized easily. After the queens were exchanged, Black had a small edge. Trying to play for a win, Kasparov sacrificed an exchange for two pawns. Unexpectedly Kasparov offered a draw soon after the sacrifice, and the computer team declined!"
Is it me, or doesn this read like and edge-of-the seat thriller where the thrill just doesn't come?
I wonder if after Kasparov offered the draw, the computer issued in a deep Quake3ish voice "DENIED."
I wonder if this works out how long it would take to get to Broadway. I can't count how many times I've wanted to find a copy of the show I just saw, WITH the performers I saw performing it. Broadway could potentially be another big market for this technology.
"The fenders are coated with a 0.5-millimeter polymer layer called Sollx, a new chemical "film" developed by General Electric (GE) that covers plastic surfaces like Saran Wrap."
Neat! Now i can complement my bad tint job with an equally bubbled paint job.. Yay!
According to a post on CNN yesterday, (can't find the link) it looked as if the drag was too much for the thrusters... It was causing the shuttle to roll over. The flight computers fired the thrusters to compensate, but it was a losing battle - if the shuttle hadn't broken up it would have rolled over and crashed.
You can view them with Mplayer. Just get the required codecs. Quicktime, realplayer, win32, etc up at:
http://ftp.lug.udel.edu/MPlayer/releases/codecs/
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About two years ago, my co-workers rearranged the keys on my keyboard while I was out. It took two weeks for me to notice. I have yet to bother to change it back.
My favorite comment I've gotten was from a software tech. She came around to install some new software and wasn't able to type with the few letters switched around. She turned to me and asked, "Is this a left handed keyboard or something?"
The IP address space isn't big enough for all the nodes on the internet. NAT alleviates this problem by "sharing" IP addresses. Remove NAT, and you're going to have to disconnect most computers from the internet.
The recommended method is creating individual partitions for /, swap, /usr, /home, /tmp, and /var. Deciding the appropriate sizes for each of these partitions when you have no experience is probably the hardest part - but there's plenty of recommendations online. Personally, I'd recommend 80MB for /, 300MB for swap, 500MB for /tmp, 1GB for /var and split the rest between /usr and /home (/home is where most of your personal files will be stored and /usr is where most packages are installed).
All of the comands are well doccumented during the install if you type 'help'. The only other thing that could cause some confusion to somebody new is that by default all drive input sizes are by hd sectors - Not Bytes. The simple way to avoid calculating everything is just append all partition sizes with a 'M'. This lets the system know that your number is in Megs, not sectors.
Hope that helps you out some.
When I clicked on the article I got a popup for none-other-than the aforementioned.
Irony..
Apparently their server wasn't quite liquidy enough? ;)
[[snip]] "Stupid is sturdy." [[/snip]]
Well, that certainly explains my geeky lack of anything resembling musclemass..
OOOOoommmmmmmmmm...OOOommmmmmmmmmmmm - Ooooooommmmmmmmmmm
Oy, its time to go home :/
Well, yea. I'm saying that if the general population was worried that their bandwidth bill would go up because of being a victim of some malicious person - they WOULD put pressure on their distributer to reform. The whole reason companies won't reform is the the general population really doesn't care all that much.
You are right about the inbound traffic being a seperate issue from the outbound. But the fear of somebody's system being compromised and utilizing tons of upstream bandwidth (which they pay for) would theoretically motivate them to try and tighten their system up.
Yea!! My car gets 40 Rods to the HoggsHead and that's the way I likes it!
*grin*
It also would cause Individuals to generate greater pressure on Distributors to get patches out and visible to the general public. If the general public took more of an interest in internet security, there'd potentially be much fewer DDos Zombies out there.
There's nothing quite as eye-opening as a huge bill sitting on the table staring back at you.
And that's my 2 cents.
That's what the article's for silly :p
Given that a draw is not only possibly but likely, adding games won't really help much - a tie is still the most likely outcome.
Is it me, or doesn this read like and edge-of-the seat thriller where the thrill just doesn't come?
I wonder if after Kasparov offered the draw, the computer issued in a deep Quake3ish voice "DENIED."
I wonder if this works out how long it would take to get to Broadway. I can't count how many times I've wanted to find a copy of the show I just saw, WITH the performers I saw performing it. Broadway could potentially be another big market for this technology.
Hmmmm....
The $95 is for commercial use. The $20 shipping/handling/etc is for private x86 use - private SPARC use is free.
Neat! Now i can complement my bad tint job with an equally bubbled paint job.. Yay!
According to a post on CNN yesterday, (can't find the link) it looked as if the drag was too much for the thrusters... It was causing the shuttle to roll over. The flight computers fired the thrusters to compensate, but it was a losing battle - if the shuttle hadn't broken up it would have rolled over and crashed.
http://www.europemedia.net/shownews.asp?ArticleID= 13703
Thompson, Tivo's manufacturer is the one that pulled out - Tivo is still looking for new manufacturers.
Post a message in on a busy corner, and see how many people you can get to pull out their phone and see the message... "Made you look :p"
http://cambuca.ldhs.cetuc.puc-rio.br/xine/w32codec -0.52-1.i386.rpm
You can view them with Mplayer. Just get the required codecs. Quicktime, realplayer, win32, etc up at: http://ftp.lug.udel.edu/MPlayer/releases/codecs/
http://216.239.57.100/search?q=cache:QZA0opGpxtwC: www.research.att.com/~smb/papers/fnat.pdf+&hl=en&i e=UTF-8
There are workarounds it says until the patch, just turn off javascript.. that gets rid of 4 of 5 holes. 5th hole is plugged by changing
/\\/g, "\\\\" ) +
/\\/g, "\\\\").replace(/"/g,"")+
m.replace(
on line 52 of "console.html" in Opera's install dir with:
m.replace(
It's nice to see that there's a speedy 24 hour turnaround on the fixes... even so I think I'll stick to my tried and true v6.03 :)